{"id":22650,"date":"2023-06-16T05:44:30","date_gmt":"2023-06-16T03:44:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/?p=22650"},"modified":"2026-09-28T12:35:06","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T10:35:06","slug":"identity-courage-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/visualjournalism.de\/en\/news-en\/exhibitions\/identity-courage-love\/","title":{"rendered":"Identity, Courage, Love"},"content":{"rendered":"\n \n\n
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\u201cWe want to grow closer together\u201d \u2013 how students have organized a massive outdoor exhibition.<\/h1>\n

\u201cIdentity, Courage, Love\u201d to be seen until June 25.<\/p>\n

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Thirty-five photographic works <\/strong>by students will be shown in public places in June as part of the \u201cIdentity, Courage, Love\u201d exhibition<\/a>. The show, deliberately covering a wide thematic variety, brings student work from the Hochschule Hannover at Expo Plaza into the public space. The projects deal with refugees, social protests, sexual orientation and psychological problems. And many projects deal with the photojournalists’ own origins in different ways. These include photo projects from Hannover, Bosnia and the Polish-Ukrainian border region.

The works were selected by a jury of professors and former students, including Prof. Dr. Karen Fromm<\/a>, Prof. Christoph Bangert<\/a>, as well as photographers Emile Ducke<\/a> and Shirin Abedi<\/a>. The jury also decided on the prize of 500 EUR awarded to Ksenia Ivanova<\/a>, a student in the International Class, for her work \u201cSilence in between\u201d. This is about the unresolved military conflict between Georgia and Russia over the region of Abkhazia.

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The exhibition was organized by a group of students themselves. Lasse Branding<\/a>, who co-initiated the project, remembers: \u201cAfter the pandemic, we wanted to bring life back into the programme and grow together more strongly. Together with his fellow students, he first had to teach himself how to write applications and concepts, acquire funding and calculate finances. Students from the event management<\/a> programme as well as teachers of the Visual Journalism and Documentary programme supported the project. Lasse Branding’s conclusion: \u201cThe exhibition is as much a result of the work of the teachers as of the students. Without their support and the structure of the course, it would not have been possible.\u201d

The exhibition was developed in cooperation with Fotobus e.V.<\/a> and is supported by Druckerei Kettler, Herrenh\u00e4user, the City of Hannover, Nikon, Picter, Photonews, Sparkasse Hannover and Verlag Kettler.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Opening time<\/strong>
June 16, 2023 to June 25, 2023

Vernissage<\/strong>
Friday, June 16, 2023, 7 pm

Exhibition locations in Hanover:<\/strong>
Main station – Ernst-August-Platz
Am K\u00fcchengarten
Leibnizufer
Galeria \u2013 Seilwinderstra\u00dfe

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Alexander Nowak
Amelie Sachs<\/a>
Antonia Teichert
Aaron Leith\u00e4user<\/a>
Anne Speltz<\/a>
Bastian Betz
Carlotta Steinkamp<\/a>
Christian Weidner & Lennart Holste
Diana Cabrera Rojas
Fabian Niebauer & Lorenz Huter
Fabian Schwarze<\/a>
Felix Rosic<\/a>
Florian Sulzer<\/a>
Giovanni de Mojana<\/a>
Kai Weise<\/a>
Kollectiv 35<\/a>
Ksenia Ivanova<\/a>
Lasse Branding<\/a>
Lenny Steinhauer<\/p>\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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Ludwig Nikulski<\/a>
Magdalena Vidovic
Malte Laudahn
Markus Heft
Martin Steger<\/a> & Moritz Lehmann
Mehdi Moradpur
Minoo Hassanzadeh
Niclas Tiedemann
Nora Schwarz
<\/a>Polina Schneider<\/a>
Samuel Bosshardt
Serghei Duve
Solveig Eichner
Stella Meyer<\/a> & Sarah Schneider<\/a>
Tabea Kerschbaumer
Teona Mskhvilidze
Thea Marie Klinger<\/a>
Tetyana Chernyavska<\/a> & Jasper Hill<\/p>\n\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Award of Excellence for Jonathan Funk.<\/h2>\r\n\t\t\t

The student has been recognised in the \u2018Portrait\u2019 category of College Photographer of the Year \u2013 for an image from north-eastern Syria.<\/p>\r\n\t\t<\/a>\r\n\r\n\t<\/header>\r\n\r\n\t

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Keeping the city clean.<\/h2>\r\n\t\t\t

Many waste workers wonder whether their bodies will last until they retire. HsH students photographed them at work, and ver.di is showing the pictures from 27 October.<\/p>\r\n\t\t<\/a>\r\n\r\n\t<\/header>\r\n\r\n\t

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Mats Hoff wins the VGH Photo Prize 2026.<\/h2>\r\n\t\t\t

The HsH student receives the award for his essay \u2018Grey Grounds\u2019 about Munster, a small town shaped by the German armed forces.<\/p>\r\n\t\t<\/a>\r\n\r\n\t<\/header>\r\n\r\n\t

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Plan your portfolio consultation early.<\/h2>\r\n\t\t\t

All dates up to the application deadline are set. Book now and get feedback from our professors more than once.<\/p>\r\n\t\t<\/a>\r\n\r\n\t<\/header>\r\n\r\n\t

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For his bachelor\u2019s project, photographer Patrick Slesiona travelled to Armenia. For years the democratic country has had to defend itself against its authoritarian neighbour Azerbaijan.<\/p>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n \r\n

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New Work didn\u2019t start with the pandemic but with the radical vision of a thinker in the 1980s. His ideas are more relevant today than ever.<\/p>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n \r\n

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Markus Heft portrays older queer people in Germany. Since 2022, he has been creating intimate portraits collaboratively, complemented by still lifes and places. The project preserves queer history and makes visible the double marginalisation of old age.<\/p>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n <\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n \r\n

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